Re: Robocar--a decade away?

Bill Snyder <bsnyder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>each car by radar, for that matter?  Is there any reason to suppose
>that an autopilot for an airliner might just possibly have an easier
>job than an autopilot for a flying car; that traffic densities might
>be heavier on the aerial highway at rush hour than they are on airline
>routes?

Plus you have the third dimension, wind, easily exceeded envelopes of safe
maneuvers, and the fact that even minor collisons are likely to be
multiply
fatal. Current airplane autopilots don't do much more than automatically
follow DF beacons and maintain altitude - taint no smarts in them. 

To say that automated operation of an aircraft is more difficult than the
already fiendishly difficult problem of doing that on the ground is a huge
understatement. *
-- 
* PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
       like corkscrews.